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I was so fortunate to witness the most spectacular natural #firefall I have seen in my 20 years in Yosemite National Park in 2019—and capture a video to share with you all! 

Hollywood raptor

Beth Pratt August 24, 2016

As part of our scouting hikes retracing P-22's likely route from the Santa Monica Mountains to Griffith Park for P-22 Day & Urban Wildlife Week October 16-22,  we traversed the park from west to east with the help of our wonderful guides, Gerry Hans and Mary Button, founders of Friends of Griffith Park. Although it's a relatively short trek, it's a strenuous one. Yet we were well rewarded for our efforts with a really cool urban wildlife sighting--a red-tailed hawk perched on the Hollywood sign. I guess even the raptors are trying to duplicate mountain lion P-22's famous shot....

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“We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ― Henry Beston

“What is the message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves—that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination?”— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost